Church of the Annunciation

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BRIGHTON

TQ3104NE WASHINGTON STREET
577-1/34/958 (North West side)
20/09/96 Church of the Annunciation

GV II

Anglican church. The original building was the present chancel
and nave, built by the Reverend Arthur Wagner as a mission
church in 1864 to the design of William Dancy; the church was
partially rebuilt in 1881 to the designs of Edmund Scott, who
added the ritual north and south aisles and the ritual
south-west chapel; tower and spire added in 1892 to the design
of FT Cawthorn. Flint, with dressings of brick and stone, roof
of tiles.
EXTERIOR: the principal front of the church is the ritual west
end in Washington Street. Ritual west window to nave, of
stone, 3 lights with trefoils and mouchettes to tracery; the
ritual south aisle has a pointed-arched entrance with 2
lancets over; tower, square in plan, has segmental-arched
entrance and is divided into stages by bands of brickwork;
stone offset; shoulder-arched belfry windows; steep roof with
gabled lucarnes.
The ritual east end, in Coleman Street shows the church
carried out over 3 large basement halls, the central one of
which, under the nave, has a ceiling carried on cast-iron
columns. The basement is lit by segmental windows in a rhythm
2-3-2. Lower, 2-storey porch to ritual south, the ground floor
of which is rebuilt; east window of 3 stepped lancets in
stone; ritual north aisle window of 2 brick lancets, ritual
south of 3 with a circular window in the gable.
INTERIOR: internally, the church is a simple timber structure,
the posts, beams and braces of square-cut timber, the roof of
the ritual south aisle having queen posts, those of the nave
and ritual north aisle king posts adapted to crosses, which
motif is repeated in the braces. Chancel of 2 bays, nave of 4,
all under a single roof. The 2 ritual eastern bays of aisles
separated by neo-Jacobean screens which also run between the
aisles and the chancel; these are of c1930 and designed by
Martin Travers, as is the decoration of the chancel ceiling
and the neo-Baroque reredos and canopy over the high altar.
Ritual east window, now partly obscured by the reredos, by
Morris and Company, all lights designed by Burne-Jones, 1866;
ritual west window of 1853, moved from St Nicholas' church
(qv), Brighton, in 1892.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-; Sewter
AC: The Stained Glass of William Morris and his circle. A
catalogue: London: 1975-: 32).

Listing NGR: TQ3182004992

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Sources

Books and journals
Sewter, A, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, (1975), 32
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)

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